I’ve not read this yet, just passing it along, as it looks really interesting.
I’m not affiliated in any way with this.
ETA: If anyone has read it / bought a copy, a review would be very appreciated.
Hi! Author here. I added a http → https redirect to my book website, thanks all. I do intend to always serve public content via https to (as other smart folks have thoughtfully mentioned) guard against stuff getting messed with between my server and your browser (however unlikely that may be). In this case I thought my server was redirecting to https, but turns out my Firefox was forcing https (again, same as other smart folks said).
re: “expert”, ugh, I’m embarrassed to even use that word, but someone else graciously called me that (so I intended to remove “self-proclaimed”), and it supposedly helps for sales. All I know is I’m growing and learning just like you, the more I know the less I know I know, and I make mistakes all the time. I always appreciate kind corrections/feedback/comments/patches/suggestions/etc.
That includes feedback on https://github.com/meonkeys/shb/blob/main/pelican/website/content/extra/.htaccess … I feel clever fixing two things in a single redirect (getting rid of
www.and forcing https), but I’m not sure if I’m doing something silly or dangerous here. I’m definitely not an expert at Apache mod_rewrite, I just cobbled that together from official docs and stackoverflow posts.Hi author! I’m Dad. :)
Thanks for joining the conversation. I thought it too much to hope you’d be on Lemmy but glad you are! Thanks for adding those bits about https, but I was saddened to see that 90% of the conversation around this centered on that one side topic.
I’ve only read the TOC for your book so far but it seems very much what we need to see more people adopt self-hosting so thank you very much for putting in the time and effort!
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web HTTPS HTTP over SSL SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL nginx Popular HTTP server
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Hopefully the author explains how to use SSL/TLS since their site doesn’t :/
They do, via Traefik. Chapter 8.
Maybe they decided there was nothing that requires an SSL/TLS certificate on this particular site? (They accept payments elsewhere).
How do you know that if you’ve never read it?
Because I clicked the link and read the link at the top which says “Code”. The book’s contents are open source. :)
Though I think everyone who can afford to and wants a copy should consider buying one. As an author myself, I know this author would prefer that option, but they’re being very cool by sharing the contents online too.
https://github.com/meonkeys/shb/blob/main/book/steadfast.asciidoc
